battle.net

There’s something about the new year that gets hackers all excited as the DDoS attacks continue. The last major attack was on 31 December with DERP unleashing their DDoS on World of Tanks, EA, Blizzard,…

It’s all the rage this week, DDoS attacks on game services. Perhaps people have more time on their hands than usual, but it’s extremely annoying. The latest attacks have come from a person/group going by…

Blizzard are in the process of testing their Steam/Origin-like desktop launcher system for Battle.Net to provide easy access to their game information, and some video footage has surfaced today. Long gone are the days of…

Blizzard are set to release “Global Play” in the next update in the “coming months” for StarCraft 2 which will allow players to change game regions. Blizzard has already added this feature to Diablo 3…

A couple of days ago we reported that Blizzard players in Iran were unable to connect to the BattleNet service for World of Warcraft. According to Blizzard who have looked into this further, the blocking…

Politically speaking, the citizens of Iran have much larger concerns than videogaming. But if you happen to be an Iranian who plays Blizzard titles, a new government ban on access to the Battle.net service required…

A security update posted on Blizzard’s official site warns users that the Battle.net system has been subject to “unauthorized and illegal access”. Email addresses for global users are known to have been accessed, as are…